Bilateral interactions of optic-flow sensitive neurons coordinate course control in flies
Pokusaeva V, Satapathy RK, Symonova O, Jösch MA. 2024. Bilateral interactions of optic-flow sensitive neurons coordinate course control in flies. Nature Communications. 15, 8830.
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Animals rely on compensatory actions to maintain stability and navigate their environment efficiently. These actions depend on global visual motion cues known as optic-flow. While the optomotor response has been the traditional focus for studying optic-flow compensation in insects, its simplicity has been insufficient to determine the role of the intricate optic-flow processing network involved in visual course control. Here, we reveal a series of course control behaviours in Drosophila and link them to specific neural circuits. We show that bilateral electrical coupling of optic-flow-sensitive neurons in the fly’s lobula plate are required for a proper course control. This electrical interaction works alongside chemical synapses within the HS-H2 network to control the dynamics and direction of turning behaviours. Our findings reveal how insects use bilateral motion cues for navigation, assigning a new functional significance to the HS-H2 network and suggesting a previously unknown role for gap junctions in non-linear operations.
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2024-10-12
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We thank Georg Ammer and Alexander Borst for sharing anti-ShakB serum antibodies. We thank Nélia Varela and Eugenia Chiappe for the w1118;+;10XUAS-IVS-eGFPKir2.1/TM6B fly line, Augustin Hrvoje for the shakB[2] line, as well as Jesse Isaacman-Beck and Thomas R Clandinin for the gift of y1,w*;20XUAS-IVS-PhiC31;+ fly line. We also thank Armel Nicolas and Tomas Masson for the proteomic analysis, Ece Sönmez for help with fly crosses and dissections for protein analysis, and Lisa Hofer for assistance with the reconstruction experiments. We would also like to thank Laura Burnett for drawing scientific illustrations used in the figures. We are particularly grateful to members of the Siekhaus, the Kondrashov, and the Chiappe group for providing material support and technical advice. We are grateful to Daria Siekhaus, Eugenia Chiappe, Alexander Borst, Ben deBivort, and all the members of the Joesch laboratory for valuable discussions and comments on the manuscript. Stocks from the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (NIH P40OD018537) and the Vienna Drosophila Resource Center were used in this study. The Scientific Service Units of ISTA supported the project through resources provided by the Imaging and Optics Facility, MIBA Machine Shop, and the Lab Support Facility, as well as Vienna Drosophila Research Centre. This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the SPP 2205 – 429960716 (M.J.).
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Pokusaeva V, Satapathy RK, Symonova O, Jösch MA. Bilateral interactions of optic-flow sensitive neurons coordinate course control in flies. Nature Communications. 2024;15. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53173-w
Pokusaeva, V., Satapathy, R. K., Symonova, O., & Jösch, M. A. (2024). Bilateral interactions of optic-flow sensitive neurons coordinate course control in flies. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53173-w
Pokusaeva, Victoria, Roshan K Satapathy, Olga Symonova, and Maximilian A Jösch. “Bilateral Interactions of Optic-Flow Sensitive Neurons Coordinate Course Control in Flies.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53173-w.
V. Pokusaeva, R. K. Satapathy, O. Symonova, and M. A. Jösch, “Bilateral interactions of optic-flow sensitive neurons coordinate course control in flies,” Nature Communications, vol. 15. Springer Nature, 2024.
Pokusaeva V, Satapathy RK, Symonova O, Jösch MA. 2024. Bilateral interactions of optic-flow sensitive neurons coordinate course control in flies. Nature Communications. 15, 8830.
Pokusaeva, Victoria, et al. “Bilateral Interactions of Optic-Flow Sensitive Neurons Coordinate Course Control in Flies.” Nature Communications, vol. 15, 8830, Springer Nature, 2024, doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53173-w.
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